Lo, last week, when news of the Conservative Bible Project broke on Twitter, the Tweeple rang out with sarcasm.
Progressives fired off fake verses one might find rewritten by the "family values'' fundamentalists behind Conservapedia, the so-called "trustworthy'' online information source for all things right-wing.
Verily I say unto thee, these U.S. conservatives, led by Andy Schlafly, begat by Phyllis Schlafly, best known for stopping the equal rights for women amendment, consider modern translations of the Bible to contain too much "liberal bias.''
The seeming irrationality behind the George W. Bush administration’s
“against the grain” (and the law) policies on torture, warrantless
domestic surveillance, and now notification of Congress about CIA
covert operations was not irrational at all.
Most experts say that torture is counterproductive because the subject
will tell the interrogator what he or she wants to hear to stop the
pain and because many military people say that it merely revs up the
opposition, gives them no incentive to surrender, and gives them every
incentive to torture U.S. military personnel.
WASHINGTON - A newly-formed and still obscure neo-conservative foreign policy organization is giving some observers flashbacks to the 1990s, when its predecessor staked out the aggressively unilateralist foreign policy that came to fruition under the George W. Bush administration.
Whenever a politician or commentator bloviates about the brokers at AIG who are getting bonuses, we should all be remembering Lynndie England and Charles Granger. AIG brokers are to the financial meltdown what England was to the Iraq war.
The
Obama administration's choice to head the National Intelligence Council
(NIC) recently withdrew in face of a concerted right-wing attack.
Veteran diplomat Chas Freeman would not have had to face Senate
confirmation. Instead, he had to face attacks in the right-wing press
and blogosphere. His withdrawal was a victory for Bush-era
neoconservatives and their allies regarding intelligence and broader
Middle East Policy.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
After all, this is a movement that is most comfortable imagining itself as an outsider. This is a movement that whirls through the pages of recent history taking credit for everything good and feeding the grisly bits to its chosen scapegoats.
The Gaza War of
2009 is a final and eloquent testimony to the complete failure of the
neoconservative movement in United States foreign policy. For over a
decade, the leading figures in this school of thought saw the violent
overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the institution of a parliamentary
regime in Iraq as the magic solution to all the problems in the Middle
East.
